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It literally means settler (f.) which is a metaphor for EA's prominence. You can translate it as integral, essential, dominant, familiar etc. but certainly not indigenous/native/domestic or the likes which would imply that it's known natively in those regions.

the word مستوطنة is used in a metaphorical sense; figurative
so it will a bad translation if not difficult to understand to translate literally
I think what the writer is trying to say is that Egyptian dialect is becoming as home(understood) by most Arabs even thought it is not native to them
" Egyptian dialect has almost become a part of the Arabic memory, be it east or be it west "
It seems to me that it carry essentially the same meaning

And I was considering that مستوطنة was an adjective modifying " لهجة عربية" in
"...اللهجة المصرية قد أصبحت لهجة عربية شبه مستوطنة...").
I guess this example proves that even Hans Wehr is not to be trusted...

P.S. I thought Iskandarani's suggestion of "ingrained" was a very workable suggestion ...